Feed your soul and watch this 5:50 minutes of incredible photography by Sebastiao Salgado.- Robert

Thanks to Doug B. for bringing this to our attention.

Since 1946, the Bregenz Festival ‘Opera on the Lake’ in Austria has been home to some of the most incredible outdoor stages ever built. Set on the gorgeous Lake Constance, the 6,800 capacity ‘Seebuhne’ Stage has been the setting for some of the world’s most famous operas.

During the 2007 performance of Tosca, the producer and director for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace were so impressed, they filmed a 10-day scene in Bregenz where Bond meets his adversary for the first time during a performance of Tosca.

CLICK HERE to view the original web site and see more incredible shots. – Robert

Okay, yes… it’s a commercial. But what a unique and fun one.  Enjoy!

-Robert

Thanks to Curt S. for bringing this one to our attention.

Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon rising. I captured the video from 2.1km away on the other side of the city. It’s something that I’ve been wanting to photograph for a long time now, and a lot of planning and failed attempts had taken place. Finally, during moon rise on the 28th January 2013, everything fell into place and I got my footage.

The video is as it came off the memory card and there has been no manipulation whatsoever. Technically it was quite a challenge to get the final result. I shot it on a Canon ID MkIV in video mode with a Canon EF 500mm f/4L and a Canon 2x extender II, giving me the equivalent focal length of 1300mm.

Music – Tenderness by Dan Phillipson : premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/songs/tenderness

-Mark Gee

One thing I encourage you to do is watch this on the biggest screen you have – don’t  waste it on an iPhone screen. – Robert

Thanks to Mary M. and Ann R. (both) for passing this along to us.

By now you have probably seen Google Map’s “Street View” feature.  Here is an incredibly creative use of those images to create an amazing “Hyperlapse” (super time-lapse photography) video. Taking each individual image from Street View and assembling them in a video editor takes the idea of time lapse photography and turns it upside down.

Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest – has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations.

Enjoy!

-Robert

CLICK HERE to see the source web site with more information.

What is it that makes a community livable and vibrant? An understanding that place matters!

Five years ago, the Arts @ the Heart Convening was created to support Nevada’s cultural leadership, to champion a vision that invests in people and the places they live. At the 2013 Arts @ the Heart Convening (A@H), we considered the attributes of vibrant communities, the role of artists as civic animators, and local renewal and growth through community engagement.

The music sound track is performed by Lady Antebellum. The Reno Arts & Culture Commission wishes to express its thanks to the group for granting permission to use this, the perfect song, for this occasion.

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

CLICK HERE to view the animated map.

Thanks to Cathy B. for bringing this one to our attention.

In the words of Shel Hall: ” Remember when we used to think that playing Classical Gas correctly was something to which we might aspire? ”

With a tip of the hat to the original composer, Mason Williams, enjoy this performance by Tommy Emmanuel.

CLICK HERE to watch him play.

Thanks to Shel H. for passing this along to us.

Spirit, MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover — A), is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.

This clip is taken from the IMAX movie ”Roving Mars” from 2006.  This is an edited short version. 16,468,900 people have already viewed this, at the time of this posting. I hope you’ll find it thought provoking and worthy of your time as well.

If you have a system capable of HD then I urge you to select the highest quality in the usual way. Full Screen is the best! – Robert

CLICK HERE to view the video.

Thanks to Peter B. for bringing this link to our attention.

How does the Internet really work? The World Science Festival created this short video explainer as a setup to Internet Everywhere: The Future of History’s Most Disruptive Technology, a sold-out program featuring Internet pioneer Vint Cerf of Google, MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, lawyer and Internet advocate Elizabeth Stark and Alex Wright, director of user experience at The New York Times.

The video lets you ride shotgun with a packet of data—one of trillions involved in the trillions of Internet interactions that happen every second. Look deep beneath the surface of the most basic Internet transaction, and follow the packet as it flows from your fingertips, through circuits, wires, and cables, to a host server, and then back again, all in less than a second.

CLICK HERE to view the short video.

Thanks to Chuck P. for passing this along to us.